[U-Boot-Users] ARM, bootm and bootargs

George G. Davis davis_g at comcast.net
Tue Jun 1 19:10:49 CEST 2004


On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 09:33:16AM -0700, Curt Brune wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to pass command line arguments from u-boot to the kernel
> for an ARM-based board.  Following the README I'm setting the
> environment variable "bootargs" to the command line I want and booting
> with the "bootm" command.
> 
> When the kernel boots it prints it's command line, which is still the
> default command line.  I was expecting to the see the command line I
> stored in the "bootargs" variable.
> 
> I poked around in u-boot/lib_arm/armlinux.c and it looks like I needed
> to have CONFIG_CMDLINE_TAG defined in my config, which I did.
> 
> Is there anything else I need to do?  Something I'm missing?

Grep & google around for BOOT_PARAMS. The phys address used for your target's
boot params area must agree between U-Boot and Linux sources.

HTH!

--
Regards,
George
> 
> Cheers,
> Curt
> 
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